New teaching innovation, entrepreneurship projects funded by College of
Human Sciences

The College of Human Sciences Entrepreneurial Program and
Teaching Innovation Initiatives offered a total of $75,000 to fund winning
proposals related to teaching innovations, and another $75,000 for
entrepreneurial-related proposals. Seven new ISU faculty-led projects were
funded through this new competitive initiative.

Iowa State is among Washington Monthly's top-ranked universities

For the third consecutive year, Iowa State University is
ranked among the top U.S. universities by Washington Monthly
magazine. Washington Monthly bills its college rankings as a "guide
not just to what colleges can do for you, but what colleges are doing
for the country."

Iowa State and DMACC work together to increase engineering graduates

Iowa State University and Des Moines Area Community College
will work together to attract more students to engineering. At Iowa State,
the goal is 120 more students earning bachelor's degrees in engineering. At
Des Moines Area Community College, the goal is more students studying
science and technology. That's expected to increase the number of students
transferring to Iowa State's College of Engineering.

Assault reported

Iowa State University officials were informed Aug. 19 of an assault that allegedly occurred at 203 Ash Ave. on Friday, Aug. 17. The victim, a female ISU student, reported that three or four unknown men restrained and inappropriately touched her. The victim was not physically harmed and was able to escape. Identities of the men involved remain unknown. Anyone with further information about the incident or the suspects should call ISU Police at (515) 294-4428.

ISU Professor of Exercise Physiology Rick Sharp was part of a
design team that created Speedo's new Fastskin FS-Pro swimsuit, which is
being credited with helping world class swimmers break dozens of national
and international records in the six months since its release.

Coach concerned about missing student-athlete

Head cross country and track coach Corey Ihmels is concerned for the well-being of Yonas Mebrahtu Gebretinsae, a young runner from Eritrea, recruited by the Cyclones and admitted to the university. He is supposed to start running for Iowa State as a freshman this fall. Ihmels said the 19-year-old hasn't been heard from since he left his home in late June to make his way to Ethiopia and then on to Kenya to process his student visa in Nairobi.

U.S. News rankings: ISU among top 25 percent of public national universities

Iowa State University is among the top one-fourth of all
public national universities in U.S. News & World Report's 2008
"America's Best Colleges" annual rankings.
U.S. News ranks Iowa State 38th among 164 public national
universities, down slightly from 36th last year.

Welcome, students

Virtual driving

Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, the House minority leader, drives
a virtual Humvee during a tour of Iowa State University's Virtual Reality
Applications Center on Aug. 13. Watching Boehner are, foreground, left to right, Eliot
Winer, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; Rep. Tom Latham of
Iowa's Fourth Congressional District; and James Oliver, director of Iowa State's
CyberInnovation Institute. The tour featured explanations of how Iowa State
researchers are using virtual
reality in military applications.

Clayton Anderson

ISU astronaut in space

See Iowa State's first astronaut Clayton Anderson at the International Space Station. Anderson earned his master's degree in
aerospace engineering at Iowa State in 1983.

In the news

Snail may be climate change casualty

National Public Radio

Commenting on a theory that climate change killed off the purple
snail, ISU biologist Diane Debinski says the story, if true, probably
won't be the last. "I think what we are seeing is the tip of the
iceberg in terms of extinction events," she adds.